Example sentences of "[was/were] built for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mills of the North of England are referred to , we think immediately of the nineteenth-century factories which were built for the purpose of manufacturing yarn and textiles , rather than buildings containing corn-grinding machinery . |
| 2 | In 1838 six locomotives were built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . |
| 3 | In 1839 Kitson and Laird withdrew from this partnership and established the Airedale foundry , also in Leeds , whose first locomotives were built for the North Midland Railway in 1840 . |
| 4 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 5 | Special wall units with large panels were built for the occasion . |
| 6 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 7 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 8 | Chariots were built for the races , painted lovely in red and azure |
| 9 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 10 | When foundations for the house were being dug — the house was built for the Marquis Litta in the sixteenth-century — Roman mosaics were discovered . |
| 11 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 12 | The church was built for the adjacent Ursuline convent which has an attractive courtyard to the right of the church . |
| 13 | The church was built for the German Lutherans in Prague between 1611 and 1613 , after the Letter of Majesty ( 1609 ) ensured freedom of worship once more to all ( see p. 9 ) . |
| 14 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |
| 15 | Terraced housing was built for the imported workers , as there was no existing settlement here when the railway came — only farmland . |
| 16 | The masonry railway viaduct was built for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in 1852 , and crosses the South Tyne at a height of 110 feet above the river . |
| 17 | A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd 's size was never more than 100 . |
| 18 | The front two pews were removed ; a raised platform was built for the Communion table and choir who now sit inside the new , straight Communion rail . |
| 19 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |
| 20 | Crayke Castle was built for the Bishop of Durham in 1430 . |
| 21 | It was at this period after the Norman invasion that the Palace of Mansion house was built for the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 22 | ‘ Monpazier , in fact , was built for the King of England , Edward the First , and one of its hotels is even named for him . ’ |
| 23 | Even more encouragingly , a working replica , ‘ The Iron Duke ’ was built for the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985 . |
| 24 | Basler 's N96BF was built for the US Navy as R4D-5 ( C-47A-25DK equivalent ) BuNo 17223 and served with them until joining the French naval air arm — Aeronavale — in early 1964 . |
| 25 | Professional 's ZS-LYW was built for the USAAF as C-47B-1-DK 43–48541 and joined the RAF as Dakota IV KJ863 in August 1944 before joining the nascent Pakistan Air Force ( as H-713 ) sometime in 1947/1948 . |
| 26 | The Grade II listed property was built for the St Quentin family of Scampston Hall and was used by women for tea parties while their husbands were out shooting . |